Dieppe
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Dieppe
- /diˈɛp/
- /djɛp/
- /diːp/ Early Modern
Rhymes with -ɛp
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English Depe, from Middle French Diepe; the modern pronunciation is a refashioning after modern French Dieppe.
The city in New Brunswick was named in memory of the Canadian soldiers who fell during the Dieppe Raid in 1942.
proper noun
- A coastal town in Seine-Maritime department, Normandy, France. Two years after ordering the mass internment of German refugees at the start of the second world war, the British government put a small, elite group of them in military uniforms and sent them on a secret cloak-and-dagger mission to occupied Dieppe to snatch an Enigma coding machine from under the N
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A city in Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada.
Similar: Leger Corner
Translations
Talk about this word "Dieppe." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/dieppe. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. Dieppe. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/dieppe "Dieppe." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/dieppe.Cite this
@misc{dieppe_2026,
title = {Dieppe},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dieppe},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
